It’s going to be really hard for anyone to offer you much in the way of constructive advice on how to make your cart run faster if you don’t provide a link to your cart/site so they can see what you are talking about and evaluate what might be done to speed it up.

I didn’t need to see his site. My bare-bones test Zencart site with all default settings takes just as long to load. Right now, the OP’s site takes less than 5 seconds for me, and my test site still takes close to 10.

Well, it helped me to be able to see the store! That said, I don’t really have any suggestions for you. The site/store doesn’t have any glaring things that might be contributing to a slow page load that I can see.

My experience was, however, a good deal better than yours. The initial page loaf of the store’s front page took just under 4 seconds from submitting the url until it was fully loaded, and subsequent pages to view products were a little quicker 2.5-3 seconds.

I agree faster would be better, but for me it loaded reasonably well. I’m sorry I don’t have anything more helpful for you.